There's no need to calculate and maintain 'length'. It's shorter and simpler code to just calculate size - offset each time around the loop. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reported-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/iomap/seek.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/iomap/seek.c b/fs/iomap/seek.c index 241169b49af8..4f711e1269e0 100644 --- a/fs/iomap/seek.c +++ b/fs/iomap/seek.c @@ -35,23 +35,21 @@ loff_t iomap_seek_hole(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, const struct iomap_ops *ops) { loff_t size = i_size_read(inode); - loff_t length = size - offset; loff_t ret; /* Nothing to be found before or beyond the end of the file. */ if (offset < 0 || offset >= size) return -ENXIO; - while (length > 0) { - ret = iomap_apply(inode, offset, length, IOMAP_REPORT, ops, - &offset, iomap_seek_hole_actor); + while (offset < size) { + ret = iomap_apply(inode, offset, size - offset, IOMAP_REPORT, + ops, &offset, iomap_seek_hole_actor); if (ret < 0) return ret; if (ret == 0) break; offset += ret; - length -= ret; } return offset; -- 2.30.2